Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.
J. Irwin Miller
BusinessBuildingFinancialLongOut
Real short- and long-term rates were relatively high in the late-1990s, so financial excess can also arise without a low-rate environment.
Jerome Powell
FinancialShortEnvironmentHigh
If you pay off your mortgage before retirement, you take a huge financial load off your shoulders. You also become eligible to take out a reverse mortgage once you turn 62.
Suze Orman
FinancialRetirementYouBecomeTurn
Looting is the only way left for the Western financial system to make money.
Paul Craig Roberts
MoneyFinancialWaySystemLeft
When advertisers ignore diversity, it is because they don't think the lives of others matter. There is not enough of a financial imperative for those lives to matter.
Roxane Gay
DiversityThinkFinancialIgnore
Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution.
Henry Paulson
ArchitectureFinancialGoalNever
If we are really serious about preventing another crisis like the 2008 meltdown, we should simply ban complex financial instruments unless they can be unambiguously shown to benefit society in the long run.
Ha-Joon Chang
SocietyFinancialLongSeriousRun
Concentrating wealth in the hands of the few and deregulating financial institutions and practices lead to speculative bubbles that eventually burst - and that brings the whole country down.
Jennifer Granholm
FinancialHandsWealthDownCountry
Technologies, including cell phones, have the potential to help millions of poor people out of poverty by enabling access to a range of safe, affordable financial services - most importantly, savings accounts - that have long been out of reach.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
PeoplePotentialFinancialHelpLong
The financial side of Broadway is the easy part. Plenty of people want to put money in a Broadway show. The challenging part is finding the material that excites me enough to spend a couple of years of my life devoted to it.
Marc Platt
LifeMoneyPeopleMeFinancialEasy
From bank accounts to financial systems, power grids to air traffic controls - our most critical infrastructure remain attractive cyber targets, and if they are ever compromised, the effects could be devastating.
Mike Quigley
PowerFinancialTrafficCyberAir
Large financial institutions in this country will always play a role that is essential to our economic growth. But they must only be permitted to grow and interconnect, throughout our economy, under careful oversight and with a mechanism for allowing those connections to be broken safely.
GrowthBrokenFinancialConnections
The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that it tends to divert attention from the real villains. During the financial crisis, the villains were the actions of the banks, not the speculators betting on bank share prices.
Gary Weiss
FocusFinancialProblemAttention
Then, after I came home from Europe, I found I was under condemnation; and I was condemned at that time because I did not endorse the financial policy of the General Conference.
John Harvey Kellogg
HomeTimeFinancialPolicyEurope
The big challenge with Internet financial services has been that it's very difficult to get large numbers of customers to sign up for your service.
Peter Thiel
ChallengeServiceFinancialInternet
With the lessons taken from the financial crisis in 1997, the Republic of Korea has been able to surmount the global economic crisis rather successfully.
Lee Myung-bak
FinancialCrisisFinancial Crisis
Trump tapped into a lot of middle-class and working-class disillusion with the political establishment and into economic worries and resentments that ballooned in the wake of the 2008 financial crash.
Michiko Kakutani
FinancialPoliticalEconomicTrump
I was not proficient in Latin and so was not able to go to Oxford or Cambridge. However, I did enter the first-rate chemistry honours program at the University of Manchester in 1950, where the professors were E.R.H. Jones and M.G. Evans, and graduated in 1953, with the financial support of a Blackpool Education Committee Scholarship.
Michael Smith
EducationSupportFinancialGoWhere
The Obama administration's large and sustained increases in debt raise the specter of another financial crisis and large future tax increases, further chilling business investment and job creation.
Glenn Hubbard
FutureBusinessJobFinancialTax
I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.
Fareed Zakaria
FinancialSaidKiddingCollapse
Sure, I travel. I went to Washington to negotiate a $1 billion prepayment to Mexico on its oil revenues to help it out of its financial crisis.
John Gavin
TravelFinancialHelpWashingtonOil
The key benefits of a Special Purpose National Bank Charter are uniform regulations, standards, supervision, and authority for emerging financial technology companies to operate nationwide.
Perianne Boring
TechnologyPurposeKeyFinancial
Low-volatility funds, which tend to smooth out performance, have been especially popular since the financial crisis. The PowerShares S&P 500 Low Volatility Fund is the oldest, begun in 2011.
James B. Stewart
PerformanceFinancialCrisisOutLow
Appeasing Wall Street is to be expected from the GOP who do little to hide their true intentions and their defense of the wealthiest financial institutions and interests.
Luis Gutierrez
FinancialHideWallStreetTrueWho
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